The politicians in Washington make little sense and Democratic politicians make even less sense.

Budgeting is not rocket science. So listen up, Washington. You have a certain amount of revenue. That is all you can spend.

If your solution to the problem is simply to increase revenue by raising taxes, you failed in your job. If you think any program you have is too important to face budget cuts, you failed in your job.

Don’t talk to me about health care reform, just do your job and balance the budget. Don’t talk to me about fighting senseless wars in far-flung corners of the globe against people who pose me no threat, just do your job and balance the budget.

If I sound exasperated, it is because I am. The most important job the Congress has is to pass the federal budget. The fiscal year began Oct. 1 and here it is April and we’re finally getting a budget plan for the year.

What is disgusting is that they almost shut down the government in a disagreement about a few billion dollars. President Barack Obama’s proposed 2011 budget had an estimated deficit of $1.6 trillion. And they want to squabble over $40 billion?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was going to let the government shut down, laying off hundreds of thousands of federal workers because the evil Republicans wanted to take the money currently going to Planned Parenthood and give that to state health departments so the states can disburse the money where it is most needed. Gasp! How dare they!

The better question to ask is why the federal government gives a single dime to Planned Parenthood. How is Planned Parenthood a federal function?

Now that we have a 2011 budget, the real fight begins.

The next battle will be the raising of the national debt limit, currently set at $14.3 trillion, which will be reached May 16. Republicans want to keep the limit where it’s at and Democrats want to raise the limit. Of course, in 2006, the opposite was true with then-Sen. Barack Obama voting with the Democrats against raising the limit.

I sympathize with the Republicans in that I don’t want our debt to grow. Unfortunately, defaulting on our obligations would not be appropriate, either. Of course, the GOP knows this and are simply playing brinkmanship with the Democrats, hoping for spending cuts in exchange for the debt limit increase.

This is necessary because Democrats have proved they will never voluntarily cut spending.

Their plan is simply to raise taxes on the rich.

We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The U.S. government has projected revenues of $2.63 trillion for 2012. Half that would be plenty of money to run the government without borrowing.

After the debt limit fight, we will have the 2012 federal budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

This should be a real fight as the GOP is going to want big spending cuts and the Democrats are going to want to continue huge entitlement spending and tax increases for the rich. The debate will likely play a key role in the 2012 election.

It doesn’t help that Obama is all over the place on the budget, debt and taxes.

In 2006, he said we shouldn’t raise the debt limit. Today he says we should.

He promised in 2008 to cut the deficit in half by the end of 2012. Yet, his budget proposal for 2012, which he submitted in February, has a $1.1 trillion deficit, almost triple President George W. Bush’s proposed 2009 deficit of $407 billion. Now, he claims he wants to cut the deficit by $4 trillion in 12 years. Apparently he didn’t care about that in February when he submitted his budget. Or any of his previous budgets, for that matter.

First he wanted to increase taxes, then he wanted tax cuts, and now he wants to increase taxes.

With the president bouncing around aimlessly on the budget and congressional Democrats fighting tooth and nail against cutting frivolous things such as a cowboy poetry festival in Nevada, it’s obvious the only people serious about cutting spending in Washington are the Republicans.

There is simply no excuse why the federal government can’t balance its books. Voters are growing disgusted with the profligate spending habits of Obama and his fellow Democratic lawmakers. They will pay the price in November 2012 if the Democrats don’t get onboard.

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